A diplomat, Carne Ross (Foreign Office first secretary in New York) tells MP's that Intelligence made it clear Saddam was not a threat.
In response, Jack Straw has now used the first ministerial veto under the freedom of information act to ban the release of cabinet minutes on the decision to go to war.
Mr Campbell will no doubt recall that in May 2004, commenting on the Hutton report, he said he had "changed his views in favour of greater freedom of information."
No wonder, since at Public Enquires Witnesses can not be compelled to attend, and since no one was required to give evidence under oath, they could not be found guilty of perjury if they lied. As a result there was NO proper coroners enquiry, The Coroner was prevented from doing his job. Only the third time ever that a Public Enquiry has taken the place of a Coroners enquiry.
Robin Cook, former foreign secretary stated [before his untimely death] that Tony Blair's problem was "he could not be honest about 'this issue' with either the British people or Labour MPs" and Sir Stephen Wall, the prime minister's former European affairs advisor stated "We stretched the legal argument to breaking point in my view".
A month before his untimely death, Robin Cook described Al Qaeda as a "database of Taliban run by the CIA". Al-Qaida, literally “the database”, was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the ‘TV watcher’ to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money.” - French intelligence officer Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel
The perversion of justice was underlined when Cherie Blair auctioned off a signed copy of the report for £400 for the benefit of the Labour Party in May 2006.

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